Invite participation. That’s today’s lesson from the NY Times. For a long time every media business – newspapers, magazines, ad agencies, broadcasters – operated with an us-and-them mentality. The “us” controlled the message and the distribution. The “we” received and consumed. Granted that model’s been dead or dying for a while now and most media […]

A couple of months ago David Haan, Executive Director of the Creative Circus, stopped by Mullen to talk about The Creative Circus, new programs offered there, and the changes to both agency recruitment needs and student training. However, I never got around to posting it. It still seems relevant so here it is. As is […]

Always make sure that 30 percent of the people involved in any strategic decision are under the age of 30. This might be among the smartest things I heard all week. It’s no surprise that when I share the thought with people who are under 30 I get a huge smile and a “fuck yeah,” […]

The Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange has asked a number of Boston-area bloggers and digital leaders to share their predictions for 2011 in a series running on their blog between now and the end of the year. They asked me for mine. However, there are people much more qualified for that task than I. So […]

BBH Lab’s founder Mel Exon has a great post over on the Labs blog this week, asking do we still need the word digital in our advertising and marketing vocabulary. Isn’t everything digital? Won’t the use of the word just perpetuate the erroneous labeling of ideas, defining them as either digital or not digital? The […]